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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies is now entering the final phase of demonstrating its technology for converting renewable carbon into hydrocarbons. The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation.

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JUNE 15, 2019

One of the main challenges of second-generation biofuel production is identifying enzymes produced by microorganisms for use in a cocktail of enzymes to catalyze biomass hydrolysis, in which the enzymes act together to break down the carbohydrates in sugarcane trash and bagasse, for example, and convert them into simple sugars for fermentation.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

California-based Biosynthetic Technologies, in partnership with Albemarle, announced that operations of a demonstration production plant for biosynthetic lubricant oil within Albemarle’s existing Baton Rouge facility have commenced. The new plant incorporates and validates every aspect of the low-cost continuous-flow manufacturing process.

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MARCH 4, 2015

This industry ultimately has the potential to provide fermentation processes with low-cost sugars derived from abundant resources. Global Bioenergies recently established collaborations with nine companies from three continents developing the most promising technologies to convert various resources (straw, bagasse, wood.)

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JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Biohydrogen Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstration”.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Now we are accelerating Direct Air Capture technology that enables efficient and low-cost CO 2 capture—the future of CO 2 recycling. At the same time, we need CO 2 as a raw material in many production processes. We want to put an industrial direct air capture, or DAC, procedure into series production.

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MAY 16, 2018

Sierra will be the nation’s first commercial-scale plant converting a municipal solid waste (MSW) feedstock—i.e., household garbage that would otherwise be landfilled—into a low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel product. The end syngas product is very clean with zero sulfur content.

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JULY 6, 2017

Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Michigan State University have devised a way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels by designing and genetically engineering enzyme surfaces so they bind less to the lignin in biomass. This potentially could reduce enzyme costs in biofuels production.

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JUNE 30, 2010

announced the successful production of ethanol at a capacity that can be scaled to commercial production. ZeaChem currently uses harvested hybrid poplar trees as the feedstock of choice in its combined biochemical and thermochemical process for the production of ethanol. Other products. ZeaChem’s process. ZeaChem Inc.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Researchers from three US national labs (Berkeley, Pacific Northwest and Sandia) has demonstrated a separation-free, ionic-liquid (IL)-based process to convert biomass to an advanced biofuel (the sesquiterpene bisabolene). —Sundstrom et al. This is also the first such demonstration with R.

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APRIL 22, 2013

The projects will demonstrate technologies to cost-effectively convert biomass into advanced drop-in biofuels and assist these organizations to scale up the processes to commercial levels. million): Cobalt Technologies will operate a pilot-scale integrated biorefinery to convert switchgrass to bio-jet fuel.

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MARCH 30, 2015

Maverick Synfuels announced the availability of the Maverick Oasis BG Gas-to-Liquid methanol plant product line. These plants convert biogas from sources such as anaerobic digesters and landfills into higher value methanol, one of the world’s most widely used industrial chemicals. Earlier post.).

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MAY 25, 2017

Production of C 5 hydrocarbons from waste biomass. Obtaining sustainable sources of chemicals and processing organic waste in an environmentally responsible manner remains a challenge. This proposal aims to solve these problems by converting organic waste into chemicals with widespread use in polymer and transportation industries.

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JUNE 16, 2009

In this role, Ryan will be responsible for business development in converting isobutanol into chemicals, jet fuel, gasoline, diesel, and fuel blendstocks. Our approach is to retrofit existing ethanol plants to produce more valuable products for the chemical and fuels industries. Gevo was founded in 2005 by Drs. We like that a lot. —Dr.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Maverick Synfuels ( earlier post ) introduced a small-scale, modular methane-to-methanol production plant that can be co-located at the methane source. The plants are designed to be low-cost, highly efficient facilities optimized to generate an attractive project rate of return. —Sam Yenne, Maverick CEO.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

Under the Master Agreement, Aemetis has predominant exclusive rights to use the InEnTec Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM) gasification equipment and technology for cellulosic ethanol production until 2024. The PEM system uses heating from electrically conducting gas (a plasma) to convert the feedstock (usually waste) to valuable products.

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MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established. using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Innovation and optimization of the Szego Mill for reliable, efficient, and successful up-scaling of the deacetylation and mechanical refining process for biofuel production. Conversion of 2,3-Butanediol to Biojet Fuel: Scale-up and Technoeconomic Analysis of Energy-Efficient Separations and Fermentative Diol Production. Project title.

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JULY 10, 2014

The improved performance was achieved in the research phase of a program funded in part by the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program under the REMOTE program (Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy), awarded in September 2013. Earlier post.) —Josh Silverman, Ph.D., Calysta Chief Technology Officer.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Cobalt Technologies, a company using strain development and bioprocess technology to optimize biobutanol production ( earlier post ), and American Process Inc. GreenPower+ is a patent-pending API process to add an extraction module and ethanol production module (and now biobutanol) to a biomass boiler. Click to enlarge. Greenpower+.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Lead organization. coli; Product: Isooctane.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Novel inorganic-organic perovskites for photovoltaics. The mineral perovskite is a promising, low-cost material for enhancing the efficiency of silicon solar cells. efficiency, low-cost silicon solar cells. Investigator: Hongjie Dai, Chemistry. Light trapping in high?efficiency, modified plants.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Waste Management and Genomatica, an industrial biotech company targeting sustainable chemicals ( earlier post ), have formed a strategic joint development agreement to research and advance Genomatica’s technology and manufacturing processes to enable production of intermediate and basic chemicals from syngas made from municipal solid waste.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Organization. Big Delta will demonstrate that the new process at the core of its manufacturing technology is scalable, reliable and significantly reduces the cost of manufacturing high-performance Li-ion cells. Organization. Organization. Description. Big Delta Systems, working with ANL. XG Sciences, working with LBNL.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

INEOS Bio, a subsidiary of INEOS, the world’s third-largest chemicals company, has started a feasibility study for a plant in the UK to convert locally generated biodegradable household and commercial wastes into carbon neutral road transport fuel and clean electricity, using the INEOS Bio technology process. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

xF’s continuous production technology uses common materials (steel and plastic) at moderate operating conditions to convert a biomass feedstock into a chemical intermediate that is subsequently combined with an alcohol to form the furoate ester product. xF Technologies Inc., —Len Rand, Chairman and CEO of xF Technologies.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million to fund a new program focused on the development of transformational electrochemical technologies to enable low-cost distributed power generation. DE-FOA-0001026 ). Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. Source: ARPA-E.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Of those selected, approximately 43% of OPEN 2018 projects will be led by universities, 35% by small businesses, and the remainder by large businesses, non-profit organizations or federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). University of California, San Diego. University of Delaware.

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APRIL 5, 2016

This reactor converts a portion of the volatile gases into a mixture of light olefins, predominantly ethylene and propylene. This process, like gasification in the gasification/F-T processes, effectively normalizes the volatile gas feed by converting it into a gas stream that is relatively independent of the feed composition.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Calysta Energy and NatureWorks have entered into an exclusive, multi-year collaboration to research and develop a practical production process for fermenting methane into lactic acid, the building block for Ingeo , lactide intermediates and polymers made from renewable materials.

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MARCH 10, 2016

They first have applied their technology to the production of a plastic—a promising alternative to polyethylene terephthalate (PET) called polyethylene furandicarboxylate (PEF)—but are now working to apply the new chemistry to the production of renewable fuels and other compounds from hydrogen and CO 2.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Focus will be directed towards the production of high-energy content fuel molecules by photosynthetic systems rather than processes that convert lignocellulose or other sources of biomass to usable fuels. How can organisms be engineered to better use the available solar resource for significantly enhanced production of biofuels?

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AUGUST 6, 2016

Researchers at MIT and startup Novogy have engineered bacteria and yeast ( Escherichia coli , Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Yarrowia lipolytica ) used as producer microbes in biofuel production to use rare compounds as sources of nutrients. The researchers engineered E. When they experimented with a mixed culture of the engineered E.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

A research team led by Washington State University received $40 million to convert closed timber mills into bioenergy development centers, improving the economic potential of rural communities affected by the downturn in timber production. A team of researchers led by Louisiana State University received $17.2

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

EdeniQ, a California-based company working to commercialize next-generation biofuels ( earlier post ), licensed technology from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for hydrolyzing cellulose fibers to release their sugar for the production of cellulosic ethanol.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has commissioned its first SunSprings demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico ( earlier post ), where the company will prove its scalable platform for solar fuel production using a fraction of the land and capital investment required for algae-derived or agricultural biofuels. The initial output of the SunSprings plant will be ethanol.

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JUNE 7, 2009

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) are developing a method to oxidize glycerin produced from vegetable oils as a by-product of biodiesel fuel production into D-glyceric acid at high efficiency using an acetic acid bacterium. Source: AIST. Click to enlarge.

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